Dawn of the Geeks

I’ve added a script to the front page that will allow me to track stock prices. I want to see just how well all those stocks advertised in spams actually do. It’s also an easy way to track the value of stocks I actually own. Eventually I’d like to make an easy to use portfolio script to allow users to track the value of their stock over time as well as the value of their entire portfolio over time. I use TD Waterhouse for my IRA and it can tell me how my portfolio is doing right now, but not how it’s done historically. There’s no way (that I’ve found) to generate a chart telling me my portfolio history.

The script grabs the current stock value (from Yahoo! Fianance) every hour and puts it into the database. I’m going to give it a couple weeks before I start generating charts and whatnot using the data collected.